Boris Yeltsin Quotes

One of the reasons I'm in this business is because I have absolute respect for the people who say, "You know what? I think I can make this a little better and I'm willing to get in and try." Because, I'll tell you, there are a hell of a lot of reasons to stay away from running for office today.

I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.

It wasn't until 1998 that I ever seriously thought about running for office. And I didn't make up my mind to do that until 1999, and then I ran for the Senate. It was really hard for me.

I've always suggested if you can't stand the sight of your own blood, don't run for office.

It is Ordered, sentenced, and decreed, that no person be chosen Governor above once in two years

Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.

Donald Trump is finding out what I found out: when you run for office, you are not allowed to tell a joke.

Once you run for office, you're in it - sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I've seen it personally.

The important thing for women to know is, you can be who you are and run for office. Women need to see themselves as good candidates, whose life experience matters, and understand that there are multiple ways that people enter public life.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm doing this for the right reasons... but I'm not particularly interested in running for president, but I think I'd make a good president. Nowadays, the process has become much more important than I think it used to be.

I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.

Give me about 10 years, I'm going to run for President. If I can squeeze in an NBA championship before that, I'll do it.

I wouldn't have the slightest interest in running for public office. I'd rather make jokes about politicians than become one of them.

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.

I don't believe that people vote for President based on spouses. I don't even think they vote much based on vice presidents or any other factor. I think they choose between the two people who are running.

I've run for statewide office plenty of times, and people know me.

The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

George Clooney says he's had sex with too many women to ever run for office. He was immediately made Prime Minister of Italy.

I had the great privilege in 2011 and 2012 of learning a lot about what it takes to run for the presidency of the United States. It is one of the greatest challenges that any human being could take upon themselves.

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

I'm not running for office. I don't have to be politically correct. I don't have to be a nice person. Like I watch some of these weak-kneed politicians, it's disgusting. I don't have to be that way.

I'd be surprised if Ronald Reagan doesn't run again. To us it's a second term. To him it's a double feature.